Chemical engineering grad students will take notable national awards
... at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will receive graduate student research awards of $300 each from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The awards will be presented in early November at the organization's annual convention in Austin, Texas. Dimitrios Zarkadas, who is expected to ...NIH awards $18.2m to The Burnham Institute to develop Center on Proteolytic Pathways
...rected by The Burnham's Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D., will receive $18.2 million over the next five years to develop this unique research hub. The Center will consolidate all known and emerging knowledge about how proteins behave into "The Protease Pathway Interrogation Platform ('PIPP')".The platform, PIPP, will b...EMBO Gold Medal 2004 goes to Spanish scientist
...lso delighted to be the first Spanish scientist to receive this prize and as a female scientist, I hope my achievement will inspire other women in science to persevere in their career." Frank Gannon, Executive Director of EMBO said: "EMBO is about advancing the biosciences in Europe. This means maintaining q...Schepens Eye Research Institute receives 'Roadmap' grant to develop center for curing eye diseases
...he award. It is the only eye research institute to receive this type of award. The grant is part of a larger initiative known as the "NIH Roadmap," which seeks to find new ways to solve problems that have not yielded to traditional research. NIH is announcing the recipients of these special awards today in B...Gladstone investigator Mike McCune wins prestigious NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...mong nine researchers across the country chosen to receive the prestigious award, established last year and awarded for the first time this year. The NIH Director's Pioneer Award (NDPA) program was created to identify and fund investigators of exceptionally creative abilities and to provide them with enough ...UT Southwestern biochemist honored with NIH Director's Pioneer Award
...om Texas is one of nine researchers in America to receive the new award. His research involves the regulatio.... I'm on cloud nine to hear that I was selected to receive one of the inaugural Pioneer Awards from the National Institutes of Health." One of the most sig...Agronomy, crop, and soil science societies to meet Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 in Seattle
...tives and public information officers can apply to receive complimentary registration for access to all techn...nline access to the Annual Meetings' abstracts. To receive your name and password to access this searchable resource, contact Sara Uttech....UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...t, author and professor at UMaine since 1968, will receive the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology at the association's annual meeting in San Francisco in November. The award, given only every other year since 1978, recognizes outstanding achievement in applied anthropology and researc...University of Alberta researcher looks for clues to mysterious disease
...oving the quality of life for those unfortunate to receive mutant alleles from both their parents. That's the million dollar question--how does ATM work, and we're slowly getting closer to understanding it." ...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...of the 2004 E.O. Lawrence Award. Each winner will receive a gold medal, a citation and $50,000. The award i...ovember 8. Fisch, a physicist, will receive the award in the nuclear technology category for his discovery of ways to use plasma waves to produc...AAAS expert panel calls for voter-system research and reform
...rove the chances that the recommendedprojects will receive funding, the workshop'sparticipants agreed to draft a letter to fundingagencies, calling on them to help support thebroad research agenda. ...NSF awards 22 new projects for plant genome research
...ision and ensure that the newly divided cells each receive a set of chromosomes. A growing challenge is how to handle the massive amounts of data coming out of ongoing genomics projects and to make it readily accessible to the broader community of students, researchers and breeders. This year's awards inc...Northeastern University receives $12.4 million NSF grant for creation of nanomanufacturing institute
...vices. As the lead institution, Northeastern will receive $4.7 million from NSF; much of the research associated with the project will be conducted at the George Kostas Nanomanufacturing facility on the 4th floor of the Egan Center, which is currently under construction. Among the greatest challenges in nan...Martin Saunders to receive the James Flack Norris Award
... San Diego California in March 2005. Saunders will receive the award for his seminal contributions to the NMR spectroscopy, structures and rearrangements of carbocations, for a new methodology for conformational search, and for the study of fullerenes, containing noble gas atoms. Saunders created new metho...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...ashington University is one of six institutions to receive FIBR funding this year. Team members of "A Systems Approach to Study Redox Regulation of Functions of Photosynthetic Organisms," include: Rajeev Aurora, Ph.D., of St. Louis University; Kenneth D. Belanger, Ph.D., professor of biology at Colgate Uni...Wiley publishes Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future
... Social issues, particularly questions of ethics, receive special attention, covering an important area too often overshadowed by science and technology. If the genome really is the book of life, then we have only just opened to the first of its many pages. Those who triumphantly claim DNA is destiny ma...Molecule awakens and maintains neural connections
...face of the cable-like axon of a neuron. Dendrites receive chemical signals that trigger nerve impulses in th...ck a type of receptor called AMPA receptors, which receive neurotransmitter molecules. However, these neurons do have other receptors, called NMDA receptors, w...Joslin President awarded medal from international diabetes organization
...Institute of Medicine in 1999. He is scheduled to receive the Bristol-Myers Squibb Metabolic Research Award for his pioneering research on insulin action, signaling and resistance on Oct. 14 in New York City. The EASD was founded in Montecatini, Italy, in1965 by Dr. Joseph Hoet, the Founding President. Th...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
...rom the Department's Office of Defense Programs to receive this year's award, among a total of 57 recipients from eight government agencies. The award is given annually to honor and support the extraordinary achievements of young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. "The work ...NJIT professor receives Presidential Award for breakthrough research with adult stem cells
...NSF), which funds her research. "I'm very proud to receive this prestigious presidential award," Arinzeh said. "The award shows that my research in stem-cell based regeneration has great potential, and that it's essential to the scientific education of students, both in college and in high school." Arinzeh, ...